Historian Gar Alperovitz shares the history of America's use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Contrary to what most of us learned in school, many of the top military officers and intelligence officials were adamant at the time that use of the bombs was...
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8/23/19 Peter Van Buren: the Hiroshima Myth
by Scott Horton | Aug 25, 2019 | Hotter Than the Sun, The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Peter Van Buren about the effects of war on American culture. They discuss the fact that America has been at war almost constantly for its entire history, ever since the nation was formed by overthrowing the British. Having an external enemy supposedly...
8/16/19 John Mueller on Finally Ending the War in Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Aug 19, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Cato's John Mueller about why it's time to leave Afghanistan. Fundamentally, the Taliban cannot be defeated at any remotely acceptable cost of American lives and U.S. dollars, says Mueller, and at the same time military interventions has only made the...
American Conservatives Are the Forgotten Critics of the Atomic Bombing of Japan
by Barton Bernstein | Aug 13, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul,” he wrote. “The only difference between this and the use of gas (which President Franklin D. Roosevelt had barred as a first-use weapon in World War II) is the fear of...
The Long-suppressed Korean War Report on U.S. Use of Biological Weapons Released At Last
by Jeffrey Kaye | Feb 21, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Download the full report here. +++++++++++ Back in the early 1950s, the U.S. conducted a furious bombing campaign during the Korean War, dropping hundreds of thousands of tons of ordnance, much of it napalm, on North Korea. The bombardment, worse than any country had...
New Year’s 2018 – Star Trek, The Future, Deluded Liberals, And Hope
by Zack Sorenson | Dec 31, 2017 | Featured Articles
We need a libertarian Star Trek, I think. I love Trek. I have some things to say about it, after I critique it. The truth is, I suspect 2018 (and the years to follow), are going to be very very bad years for us. For mankind. This is also an article about...
There Is Little Reason to Believe North Korea Has an H-Bomb
by Marko Marjanovic | Sep 8, 2017 | Blog
Are Washington and Pyongyang enemies or symbiotes? For supposed enemies they sure agree on a lot of dubious information. For example they both agree North Korea tested a hydrogen bomb last Sunday though there's little to indicate that is true. Early estimates put the...
News Roundup 8/8/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 8, 2017 | Blog
This article looks at the generals in Trump's administration. [Link] Police were able to seize $21,000 from a sex worker with civil asset forfeiture. [Link] The City of Chicago is using SWAT to manage mental health crises. [Link] The son of "El-Chapo" has been...
Truman, A-Bombs, and the Killing of Innocents
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 6, 2017 | Blog
Today marks the 72nd anniversary of U.S. President Harry Truman's atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. The atomic bombing of Nagasaki took place three days later in 1945. Some 90,000-166,000 individuals were killed in Hiroshima. The Nagasaki bombing killed...
War Is Not Moral
by Zack Sorenson | May 31, 2017 | Blog
I recently finished an article where I lay out why I think war itself should be considered immoral, and what an alternative could be. When I was in the military, I struggled knowing that my hard work was helping get people killed. Those who maybe deserved it but also...
Welcome to America’s ‘Nuclear Sponge’
by Tom Collina | Feb 9, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The United States currently deploys hundreds of nuclear missiles across Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Wyoming. Each missile carries a nuclear payload many times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, capable of killing hundreds of thousands of people....
Pearl Harbor: Should Abe Apologize?
by Thomas L. Knapp | Dec 7, 2016 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On May 27, Barack Obama became the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima, site of history’s first atomic attack on August 6, 1945. The Japanese government did not ask Obama for an apology, nor did he offer one. On December 27, Shinzo Abe will become the first...
Apple Atomics: Nuclear Survival In A Liberated Age
by Martin Pappalardo | Dec 1, 2016 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
In debates, particularly with those on the left who share a proclivity for hyperbole, the subject of self-defense soon has the libertarian tasked not only with a defense of firearm ownership, but with defending themselves in their newfound position as proponents of...
The Bombs
by Kym Robinson | Nov 8, 2016 | Blog
The Bombs It is perhaps with a degree of historical poetry that on the cusp of an apparent Iranian nuclear deal that Japan should celebrate the 70th anniversary of the destruction of two of its cities at the hands of the United States. The very...
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Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years
Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...
What Kind of Liberal?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I am a Locke-Smith liberal.
The Tale of the Steak – A Lesson in Economics by Walter E. Williams
Consider filet mignon and chuck steak. Assume-realistically-that consumers prefer the former. Then the question becomes: why is it, despite consumer preferences, that chuck steak sells at all? The fact is that chuck steak outsells filet mignon. How does something less...
My Favorite Michael Malice Quote
If the government didn't have a monopoly on security, only rich people would be able to have security just like when the government got out of other businesses, the only cars produced were limousines, the only clothes produced were tuxedos and the only food produced...